Georgia Tech and Emory Biomedical Engineering is a true success story in risk-taking and innovation - a visionary partnership between a leading public engineering school and a highly respected private medical school. View some 2016 stats and stories.

True to Wallace H. Coulter’s vision and legacy, biomedical engineering faculty and students work closely with clinicians to not only gain fundamental insights into human health but also to translate our research to impact real-world problems.

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Over 900 full-time instructional faculty

23,000 graduate and undergraduate students

U.S. News & World Report ranks GT as the No. 7 public university in the country

Among the top 10 in research expenditures among universities without a medical school

Produces more than 400 invention disclosures annually

THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Largest and most diverse College of Engineering in the country

All graduate and undergraduate programs ranked in the top 10 nationally by U.S. News and World Report

More than 175 faculty members have received National Science Foundation CAREER awards​

1,226 research contracts and grants for a value of $190.1M in FY2016

25 active CoE faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering

Over 100,000 alumni worldwide

EMORY UNIVERSITY

Top 20 medical schools in NIH research funding

School of Medicine is ranked among the nation’s finest institutions for education, biomedical research, and patient care.

2400 full and part-time faculty and 679 volunteer faculty

Received more than $788 million based on commercialization of intellectual property, mostly in the health sciences over the last two decades.

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Largest BME department in the country - 72 faculty, 1214 undergrads and 223 graduate students

Graduate program ranked #3 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report

Undergraduate program ranked #1 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report

The fall 2016 BME freshman class had 275 students, 60% of them are female